Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His men were all Rhodesians , tough , self-reliant and taciturn men to whom the open-air life was second nature . |
| 2 | So , Coward is elevated to join the likes of Greed ( 1923 ) and Paisa ( 1946 ) and Le jour se lève ( 1939 ) , but Manvell cautiously refuses to bestow individual plaudits , preferring to see the film as ‘ one of those rare films for which one can never be sure to whom the real credit is due … an example of the unity achieved by the cooperation of many creative minds ’ . |
| 3 | Maps do not portray the existence and aspirations of Palestinians , Armenians , Druze , Souryanis , Assyrians , Bedouin , Kurds and many others for whom the real map of the Middle East is written on the heart , where identity and hope are nurtured generation after generation . |
| 4 | The Sultan , Sir Hassanal Bolkiah , in whom the 1959 written Constitution vests supreme executive authority , presides over and is advised and assisted by a Council of Cabinet Ministers , a Religious Council and a Privy Council . |
| 5 | The Sultan , in whom the 1959 Constitution vests supreme executive authority , presides over and is advised and assisted by a Council of Cabinet Ministers , a Religious Council and a Privy Council . |
| 6 | There are groups in hospitals and prisons for whom the regular CAB is inaccessible at any time . |
| 7 | Like most of Karajan 's judgements , it is rational and soundly based , though it will always disappoint English music-lovers for whom the early 1950s Philharmonia was a high-water mark in the country 's orchestral affairs , matched only by such other brief periods of glory as those enjoyed by Beecham 's LPO and Boult 's BBC SO in the 1930s and the LSO in the Monteux , Kertész , and early Previn years . |
| 8 | He explained that it was a unanimous decision by Butcher , senior coach Alan Jones and second-team coach John Steele , that Maynard , a gifted but erratic player of whom the best has probably not been seen , should have the chance . |
| 9 | The position is now much more complex for individual employees , for whom the best choice may be one of several options . |
| 10 | You could have a family of maybe erm an older carer with a mentally handicapped son or daughter who receives various allowances , but whom the total income for that family is such that it is so low because of special circumstances , maybe the mother has to have special heating , or special diets , or whatever , as to be logical that we waive some or all of the charge . |
| 11 | Against these powerful Heathite figures , there were indeed very few colleagues whom the Prime Minister could safely regard as ‘ one of us ’ . |
| 12 | In come the Estonians , ’ Harold Macmillan is said to have remarked after one of Margaret Thatcher 's early cabinet reshuffles , and the men to whom the Prime Minister turned were certainly outside this small genetic pool . |
| 13 | The NCB had a chairman , Mr Ian McGregor , of whom the Prime Minister approved . |
| 14 | These entirely estimable men , among whom the prime movers are Curnonsky , Marcel Rouff and Count Austin de Croze , set to work compiling their wonderful catalogues and books concerning regional dishes and products , and their guides to the provincial restaurants where such things are served . |
| 15 | The performers whom the young Elvis heard and learned from — gospel singers , blues men like Arthur Crudup , Bill Broonzy , Junior Parker and Howlin' Wolf , country and western stars such as Bob Wills , Hank Williams and Roy Acuff — were commercial artists ; they , like Elvis himself , did not separate themselves from the whole wash of music that was available . |
| 16 | In discordant twin pairs of whom the diseased twin had ulcerative colitis , the healthy ones tended to have a raised proportion of IgG1 cells ( 64.6% ) , and the IgG2 cell fraction was significantly ( p=0.05 ) reduced ( 19.1% ) compared with controls . |
| 17 | It involves an act of imagination to see one 's society and culture through the eyes , as it were , of someone from a different culture , to whom the normal ways of living and acting in Western societies appear odd and to demand explanation . |
| 18 | He was not alone in his scepticism about the size of the pool of ability , the optimism of 1963 , or the soundness of a Conservative Minister with whom the Labour party found it difficult to quarrel . |
| 19 | The report rejected the idea of two distinct groups of children , the handicapped and the non-handicapped , of whom the former had special education and the latter just education . |
| 20 | Roebuck had earlier bagged a ‘ pair ’ in Devon 's match with Dorset , for whom the former Gloucestershire seamer Julian Shackleton , now 40 , took 7 for 57 . |
| 21 | Three years after Guntram 's death , however , Childebert himself died , leaving two sons , Theudebert II ( 596 – 612 ) and Theuderic II ( 596 – 613 ) , of whom the former had already in 589 been given a sub-kingdom of the cities of Soissons and Meaux , at the request of some of the leading citizens — development pregnant with implications for the future . |
| 22 | Turkish troops conducting operations against Turkey 's own Kurds ( among whom the left-wing Kurdish Workers ' Party , PKK , were especially active ) were accorded the right to cross into Iraq in hot pursuit . |
| 23 | In south-eastern Chad , Mosanat ( Mouvement pour la salvation nationale tchadienne ) claimed military victories in early March 1989 ( see p. 36519 ) and denied the government 's claims that fighting in that region had involved a Libyan-backed Islamic Legion ( a force of some 2,000 whom the Sudanese authorities said had crossed from Libya into Sudan in early August 1988 , and on whom the Habre government claimed to have inflicted defeats in December 1988 some 100 km west of the Sudanese border ) . |
| 24 | FANS of the NFL associate the Green Bay Packers with legendary coach Vince Lombardi — after whom the Super Bowl trophy is named . |
| 25 | There was nobody to oust the Viet Minh , and this was accepted by the Emperor of Annam , Bao Dai , whom the Japanese had acknowledged as ruler . |
| 26 | However , the proportions for whom the general practitioner was described as reluctant to visit , or for whom it was felt it would have been helpful if the doctor had visited the person who died more often , did not vary significantly between the groups . |
| 27 | This has been defined as ‘ systematic and continuous abuse of an elderly person by the carer , often though not always a relative on whom the elderly person is dependent for care ’ ( Cloke , 1983 , p. 2 ) . |
| 28 | Second , the cause of the problem has been clearly identified as nomads and graziers who are politically very weak , and who have had much of their livelihood taken away and upon whom the heaviest penalties for ‘ trespassing ’ on forest schemes fall — in the same way as in the days of the Emergency , when aggressive family planning ‘ drives ’ herded vagrants , petty thieves and other vulnerable groups into camps for more or less forcible vasectomy . |
| 29 | Also here is the tomb of San Saccaria , the founder of the Barnabites for whom the first church was built . |
| 30 | Akram then edged just short of slip , and clearly a stiff examination was being set out there by Malcolm , to whom the first comeback wicket had been ‘ like a drink of water to a thirsty man ’ . |